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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...

House passes $1T infrastructure bill with crypto tax for Biden's approval

The infrastructure bill was first proposed by the Biden administration aimed at primarily improving the national transport network and internet coverage. The United States House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which if signed into law by President Joe Biden, would enforce new provisions in relation to crypto-tax reporting for all citizens. The infrastructure bill was first proposed by the Biden administration aimed at primarily improving the national transport network and internet coverage. However, the bill mandated stringent reporting requirements for the crypto community, requiring all digital asset transactions worth more than $10,000 to be reported to the IRS. As Cointelegraph reported, the bill was first approved by the Senate on Aug. 10 with a 69-30 vote, which was met with a proposal to compromise amendment by a group of six senators — Pat Toomey, Cynthia Lummis, Rob Portman, Mark Warner, Kyrsten Sinema and Ron Wyden. According ...

TCG World Partners With Stock Giants WSB to Expand Their Metaverse

PRESS RELEASE. The world’s largest metaverse on blockchain and NFT platform TCG World announces partnership with a stock giant WallStreetBets. Since the start of the year, the WallStreetBets movement has been defying traditional finance with a legion of retail investors using decentralized tradable assets on the blockchain to advance the ethos of financial democracy. Now, the giant online retail investor group that shook the stock markets with the GameStop frenzy is betting big on the metaverse through a partnership with TCG World . What is TCG World? TCG World is the largest open world metaverse on Binance Smart Chain. It follows a play-to-earn approach and has its own story that progresses as a user spends more time in the game. In TCG World users can invest in virtual real estate, hunt for NFT collectibles, earn TCGCoin 2.0, or start their virtual career while exploring the metaverse. TCG World incorporates thousands of different collectible NFTs that can be sold or tr...

Electronic Arts CEO Thinks NFTs and Play-to-Earn Are Part of the Future of the Gaming Industry

Electronic Arts (EA), an important gaming and entertainment-oriented company, has made insightful remarks about the importance of NFTs and the play-to-earn model in its last earnings call. Andrew Wilson, CEO of the company, addressed the subject in response to several questions posed by business analysts. Electronic Arts Open to NFTs and Play-to-Earn Electronic Arts, the company behind gaming sports franchises like FIFA and NBA, has assessed the importance of new technologies like NFTs and the play-to-earn model for the gaming industry. During the company’s latest earnings call, Andrew Wilson, Electronic Arts’ CEO, stated that while the conversation around NFTs and play-to-earn was still very early, these cannot be ignored as an important part of what might be to come in the industry. When asked about the negotiation for the FIFA license, Wilson stated: When we kind of interact with our hundreds of millions of football fans… they want more modalities at play inside the game, whi...

New York City Mayor-Elect Eric Adams Will Take First 3 Paychecks in Bitcoin, Promises to Make NYC Center of Crypto

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams says that he will take his first three paychecks in bitcoin. He has also promised to make NYC the center of crypto. “NYC it’s going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing innovative industries,” he said. Eric Adams’ Bitcoin and Crypto Promises New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams said he wants to turn NYC into a crypto-friendly city and will also take his first three paychecks in bitcoin. Replying to a tweet made by Miami Mayor Francis Saurez that he will take 100% of his next paycheck in bitcoin, Adams wrote: “In New York, we always go big, so I’m going to take my first three paychecks in bitcoin when I become mayor.” He added: “NYC it’s going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing innovative industries.” Many people on Twitter see Adams’ statement as very bullish. At the time of writing, his tweet has been liked 14.1K times and retweeted 2,906 times. Many simply tweeted “bullis...

Coinbase Makes Shiba Inu Crypto Available to New York Residents After Adding SHIB Trading Pairs

The Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange Coinbase has made shiba inu cryptocurrency available to New York residents, who can now trade, buy, sell and store SHIB on Coinbase. This announcement follows the exchange adding SHIB trading pairs. Coinbase Grows Its Shiba Inu Crypto Offerings Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced Friday that the shiba inu (SHIB) cryptocurrency is now available to residents of the U.S. state of New York. Coinbase tweeted Friday: It’s official, SHIB is now available to trade, buy, sell and store on Coinbase for NY residents. This announcement follows Coinbase adding some SHIB trading pairs. The official Twitter account for Coinbase Pro tweeted Wednesday: SHIB-EUR & SHIB-GBP order books are now in full-trading mode. Limit, market and stop orders are all now available. The price of SHIB soared Friday after dipping the previous day. At the time of writing, SHIB has risen 21% in the past 24 hours and 261% in the past 30 days. Over the past week, the co...

3 reasons why DeFi users are bullish on Abracadabra, Magic Internet Money and SPELL

Investors have embraced Abracadabra Money’s truly decentralized approach to DeFi and the option to draw stablecoin loans off a growing list of assets appears to be backing SPELL’s rally to new highs. Stablecoins and their use in decentralized finance (DeFi) have played a key role in the 2021 cryptocurrency bull market because allow investors to participate in the ever-growing number of protocols that offer high yield staking pools and they ease the process of transacting without needing to use a centralized exchange.  One project that has seen a significant amount of adoption thanks to its focus on creating a truly decentralized ecosystem and asset-backed stablecoin is the Abracadabra.money DeFi protocol and its native SPELL token. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after hitting a low of $0.0114 on Oct. 15, the price of SPELL rallied 178.55% to establish a new record high at $0.035 on Nov. 1 as its 24-hour trading volume spiked to $109.82 million....

Metaverse Tokens See Triple-Digit 7 Day Gains, Crypto Market Cap Inches Toward $3 Trillion

While bitcoin has been consolidating for a few days now, a number of other digital assets have seen solid seven-day gains. The two metaverse tokens sandbox and decentraland have skyrocketed over 170% during the last week. Crypto assets like loopring, crypto.com coin, and arweave have spiked in value more than 66% and up to 169% this week as well. Sandbox, Decentraland, Loopring See Triple-Digit Gains This Week The price of bitcoin (BTC) has consolidated above the $60K zone for a while now and market performance this week has been rather lackluster. While bitcoin (BTC) gained 0.5% during the last seven days, three top-ten cryptos saw double-digit gains this week. The third-largest market in terms of overall valuation is held by binance coin (BNB), which is up 24.1% this past week and swapping for $610 per BNB . Solana (SOL) swapping for $235 per unit is up 20.9% this week. Additionally, polkadot (DOT) has climbed 21.9% and is currently changing hands for $51.29 per unit. While...

Altcoin Roundup: 3 blockchain protocols taking the supply chain crisis head-on

Supply chain issues continue to make global headlines on a daily basis. Here’s three projects that are using blockchain technology to provide solutions. The world of blockchain technology has undergone a significant transformation over the past decade as the concept evolved from offering a simple means of exchange between two parties to a sprawling ecosystem full of protocols with real-world applications ranging from decentralized finance to one-of-a-kind digital art.  One sector of the market that has been gaining traction as of late while the global just-in-time delivery system has fallen under immense pressure is the supply chain and logistics group of projects that offer blockchain-based solutions for the global supply chain ecosystem. While it’s true that the current problems facing global suppliers, shippers, truckers and businesses are multifaceted and include issues such as worker pay and benefits, the integration of blockchain technology offers a substantial upgrade t...

Risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs completes $15M strategic round

In total, the market surveillance company has raised $35M in the last six months. Market surveillance firm Solidus Labs completed a $15 million strategic round led by Liberty City Ventures on Friday. GSR and Exor Seeds also participated in the financing. This follows the company's $20 million Series A that concluded in May. Solidus' investors also include former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo and former SEC commissioner Troy Paredes.  The company hired former CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger as it’s VP of Regulatory affairs in July. Solidus CEO Asaf Meir said: "This strategic round will allow us to serve more clients sooner and address many new use-cases in the DeFi and NFT risk frontiers, which require Solidus’ unique combination of crypto know-how and expertise in traditional trading dynamics and manipulation typologies." According to Liberty City Ventures Partner Emil Woods, “Solidus was prescient in developing the necessary tools for market surveillance and ...

Enegra migrates digitized equity tokens from Ethereum to Polygon blockchain

The firm selected the Polygon blockchain for its low transaction fees and fast transaction time. Enegra Group, a commodities trading firm based in Malaysia with a net asset value of $28 billion, has migrated its equity-tied EGX security tokens to the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain from Ethereum ( ETH ). In 2019, Energra tokenized 100% of its equity, enabling shareholders to digitally exercise their dividend, voting and governance rights. Both the initial tokenization and token migration were facilitated by Tokeny, an asset tokenization and compliance infrastructure provider. Matthew Averay, managing director and CEO at Enegra, said: We tokenized our equity to improve liquidity. And, now that the technology is available for faster, cheaper and compliant transactions on the blockchain, we wanted our investors to take advantage of it. Polygon and Tokeny provided the complete infrastructure we needed to do so, and we are extremely pleased with the results. Meanwhile, Sandeep Nailwal,...

Acting CoC Hsu: More crypto regulation is needed

The regulator singled out Binance and Tether as allegedly risky players in the blockchain space. In remarks given at the American Fintech Council’s 2021 Policy Summit, acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu called for greater regulation of universal crypto firms. “Large, universal crypto firms—especially issuers of highly-circulated stablecoins—should embrace comprehensive, consolidated supervision. At the same time, federal and state bank regulators should prioritize the development of policies, staff and supervisory approaches to bring such firms safely into the bank regulatory perimeter. This would clearly differentiate safe and sound crypto firms from those that are regulated only partially and have a history of control lapses, such as Binance and Tether.” The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is responsible for the regulatory oversight of federally chartered banks operating within the United States. Hsu further declared: “The rapid expansion and mixing...

Cosmoverse Conference 2021 kicks off in Lisbon

The event connects ATOM stakeholders, developers and enthusiasts from all over the world with the latest developments on the Cosmos blockchain. The team behind interoperable blockchain network Cosmos ( ATOM ) recently hosted the Cosmoverse Conference live from Lisbon, Portugal. ‍‍Cosmonauts, #Cosmoverse it’s LIVE! This event is 100% from the community to the community, and we are proud to have our Cosmos Hub Community Pool as the main sponsor! Tune now to the livestream and prepare yourself to dive into cosmos’s wonders https://t.co/OzyD3bSdqB pic.twitter.com/QFXHu5l3B6 — Cosmos - Internet of Blockchains ⚛️ (@cosmos) November 5, 2021 Kicking off the two-day event, Zaki Manian, co-founder of decentralized finance, or DeFi, project Sommel and former lead developer at Cosmos and Tendermint (Cosmos network's core contributor), discussed a number of technologies under development by the Cosmos ecosystem. According to Manian, a development called ABCI ++ will enable the ...

CoinMarketCap Updates and Verifies TON Crystal Listing; TON Now Among Top 5% of Assets by Market Cap

CoinMarketCap, the leading authority on real-time cryptocurrency prices and data, has just updated and verified its TON Crystal (TON) listing. Now TON, the native token of the FreeTON blockchain, ranks among the top 5% of cryptocurrencies by market cap. This has been a year of remarkable development for the FreeTON project. The project started when Telegram was forced to halt the plans it had for launching its own TON blockchain network and associated token. Instead of letting the network go to the wayside, a community of people that believed in the value of the technology decided to try and launch it themselves by taking a grassroots approach to funding and a decentralized approach to governance. The result is FreeTON, a network capable of processing millions of transactions per second, with cheap transaction fees, formidable security, a meritocratic token distribution protocol and a decentralized governance structure. Around the original, open-source technology a robust ecosyst...

Bitcoin’s consolidation is ‘normal’ — Analysts set $80K BTC price target

BTC’s sideways price action has pushed some traders into altcoins, but analysts are confident that the next breakout will push Bitcoin price above $80,000. Bitcoin ( BTC ) bulls are still hoping for a major breakout but at the moment, bears are applying pressure and keeping the digital asset pinned below $61,000.  Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that an early morning breakout by bulls to make a run above $62,000 was met with a strong defensive line from the bears who handily rejected the attempt. BTC/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView Here’s a look at what traders and analysts are saying about Bitcoin's current price action and what they expect in the short term. “Bitcoin is still on the path to $90,000” While some traders may have found themselves bored with Bitcoin's sideways price action, independent market analyst ‘Rekt Capital’ recently posted the following chart highlighting the fact that BTC has flipped a major resistance level i...

Next generation of crypto millionaires: SHIB allows warehouse manager to retire

The funds gave him the ability to quit his job, which paid $68,000 annually, to stay at home taking care of his son and participate in online discussions about projects related to the memecoin. A Shiba Inu token holder who invested thousands of dollars in the memecoin in February has partially cashed out to become a stay-at-home dad. According to a Thursday report from Fortune, a 35-year-old supermarket warehouse manager identified only as Rob invested $8,000 into Shiba Inu (SHIB) when the price was roughly $0.0000001 — giving him an allocation of 800 billion tokens. In May, when the token price surged significantly to reach a then all-time high of more than $0.00035, Rob cashed out part of his holdings to deposit $500,000 into his bank account. The SHIB holder still has more than $1 million worth of crypto following the token’s price surge in October. The funds have allowed him to quit his job, which paid $68,000 annually, stay at home taking care of his son and participate in o...

FBI Public Service Announcement Warns of ‘Increased’ Crypto ATM, QR Code Fraud

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), America’s domestic intelligence and security service, has published a public service announcement concerning fraudulent schemes associated with cryptocurrency ATMs and QR codes. The FBI’s warning, published on November 4, highlights the presence of “scammers” directing their energy at unknowing victims. US Federal Agency Warns of Increase in Crypto ‘Scammers’ On Thursday, the U.S. government entity the FBI published a public service announcement that explains “criminal actors” are maliciously utilizing cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs) in order to compromise victims’ crypto funds. The FBI’s press release stems from the Internet Crime Complaint Center which has seen an “increase in scammers.” “The FBI warns the public of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes to facilitate payment,” the announcement notes. “The FBI has seen an increase in scammers directing victims to use physical crypt...

Finance Redefined: Avalanche launches $200M fund, wXRP to debut on Ethereum Oct. 29–Nov. 5

Avalanche Foundation showcases a six-figure ecosystem fund, wXRP set to launch smart contracts on Ethereum, and AllianceBlock joins forces with Flare — all coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter. For many years, Ethereum and XRP held the second and third-ranking spots in the crypto market. Read on to discover how wXRP will integrate into Ethereum to expand its utility to smart contracts. What you’re about to read is the smaller version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments over the last week, subscribe to our newsletter below. Avalanche launch $200M fund to incentive developers The Avalanche Foundation unveiled a new $200 million fund this week aimed at expanding the liquidity potential of startup projects with its ecosystem building decentralized finance, nonfungible tokens, enterprise and cultural applications. According to the official blog post, the smart ...